Staff Product Manager, Developer Experience

The Staff Product Manager, Developer Experience, is responsible for the end-to-end experience of CNN's engineers, accelerating and amplifying their capability to deliver end user value from onboarding through to code reaching production and over 100 million end users. Operating within the Digital Platform Group, the role partners across engineering and platform teams to improve the full developer lifecycle, from how engineers learn CNN's platform, workflows, tooling and infrastructure to how quickly and safely they can move from code commit to production deploy. The role is accountable for measurable improvements in time to productivity for new engineers, engineering velocity and release safety across CNN's digital platform.

• Own Developer Experience and Operations, a strategic priority product area with high complexity, defining the product vision, strategy, goals, metrics and roadmap in close partnership with engineering leads who bring the technical depth.
• Collaborate with engineering leads to design and improve the end-to-end developer onboarding journey, ensuring engineers can learn CNN's platform, workflows, tooling and infrastructure quickly and begin delivering value to end users as fast as possible.
• Identify and reduce bottlenecks in CNN's build, test and deployment pipeline, improving code commit to production cycle time while increasing release volume and deployment safety.
• Drive adoption of developer platform tooling, deployment workflows and engineering operations processes, measuring usage to validate impact and inform iteration.
• Partner with engineering teams and data to develop insights that drive decisions, actively identifying and closing gaps in understanding of the developer experience.
• Continuously monitor the developer experience landscape, developing data insights that inform strategy and influence decisions across engineering and product teams.
• Lead through influence and cross-team collaboration to drive best practice adoption, increase organisational effectiveness and continuously raise the bar for how CNN's engineers onboard, build, test and deploy.

• 8+ years of product management experience, owning a strategic priority product area with high complexity and ambiguity.
• Demonstrated experience owning internal developer tools, developer platforms or infrastructure-related products, with engineers as the primary stakeholder.
• Technical fluency in CI/CD, build systems, deployment pipelines and developer tooling.
• Familiarity with DORA metrics and demonstrated experience using engineering data to diagnose bottlenecks and drive product decisions.
• Strong track record of driving adoption of platform tooling and engineering best practices across a large organisation.
• Proven ability to lead through influence and cross-functional collaboration, delivering measurable outcomes without direct authority.
• Demonstrated ability to develop data insights that inform strategy and influence decisions across engineering and product teams.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, accessible language that resonates with product and business leadership.
• Excellent written and oral communication, producing clear product artefacts that are used as examples of quality work by the broader team.

• Experience at a media company, publisher or complex multi-platform digital organisation.
• Background in engineering operations, incident management or deployment governance.
• Proven track record of driving organisational behaviour change in engineering organisations.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted developer tooling and a clear point of view on where it does and does not meaningfully accelerate engineering velocity.

• Health insurance coverage.
• Employee wellness programme.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Paid holidays, sick time and vacation.
• Total compensation package may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives and programme-specific awards.